quantum leap
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China’s renewed tightening of export controls is “a quantum leap in severity and coverage of such controls,” the economist says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
It’s a luxury, a quantum leap, one that can save your imagination from a propensity to meek fatalism or received social patterns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2025
In elite distance running, that’s not a marginal gain, it’s a quantum leap.
From Slate ● Jun. 28, 2025
When connected to a power source, electrons travel down the tip and make a quantum leap across the atom-sized gap.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
Nothing in between is allowed, so to get from 30 to 40 miles an hour, you have to make a quantum leap.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
